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I already have a basic strength and conditioning program, and I play combat sports. So let's assume that the fundamentals of squatting, deadlifting, chinning, pressing, running, and sport-specific conditioning are dealt with.
I'm convinced now that rotational strength is a fundamental component of strength, particularly for sport. So what exercise should I add to my routine to handle rotational strength?
Considerations: I need to ease into it, but I want to train heavy. I don't have a lot of room in my programming, so it has to pack a good bang for the buck.
Candidates currently include, but should certainly not be limited to:
- Russian twists (says Ross Enamait)
- Cross chops (says West Coast S&C)
- Overhead squats, lunge-and-twists, Saxon side bends, and a bunch of other light-weight stuff (says Mike Rutherford in CrossFit Journal (PDF))

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HOUSTON – More than 25,000 people participated in the 22nd Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in downtown Houston Saturday morning.
People proudly walked or ran the streets of Houston, displaying their pink and their passion to find a cure for breast cancer.
"I'm here to walk the race of a survivor," said Charlotte Johnson, who battled breast cancer in 2000 and again in 2008. "I am so blessed. I'm highly favored to know that I've been through this twice and survived it."
While cancer survivors were among the thousands, others walked on behalf of their family and friends.
"I'm walking in support of my sister who was just diagnosed with breast cancer this year," said Laura Thames-Pride, a race participant. "I also have a godmother who was diagnosed last year."
The participants all agreed that finding a cure for breast cancer is critical.
In 21 years, the Houston Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has contributed eight million dollars for national research, and over $25 million for community grants in southeast Texas counties.


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The Financial Services Institute announced that Capital Investment Cos. is offering free membership to its 150 representatives in the FSI.
FSI President and CEO Dale Brown (left) said in a statement that the new members reflect that FSI's "collective voice is getting stronger and more influential" among regulators and lawmakers.
Raleigh, N.C.-based Capital Investment Cos. comprises Capital Investment Group, Capital Investment Brokerage and Capital Investment Counsel.
FSI has more than 100 corporate members and 35,000 individual advisor members. It will hold its inaugural conference for advisors this fall in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9-11.


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The wall of icy water hit me so hard that I sat unable to take my next breath – for over a minute – I'm sure of it. I am also sure our whitewater rafting guide had it in for me.
I could see it in his eyes, from the moment he handed me that ridiculously small wetsuit. I mean, who in their right mind expects any self-respecting woman to don one of those things; it outlines your fat, for heavens' sakes.
But wear it I did, and what's more I got back at our nasty guide.
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Fun ways to collect email addresses
By Hank Hoffmeier, iContact Strategic Advisor
With Halloween upon us, are you looking for a trick or a treat? Well, here's a treat for you – fun ways to scare up subscribers for your email newsletters. Most email campaigns lose 30% of their subscribers year over year. If you want to increase sales, you will need to replace that loss. But don't let that scare you off! We have compiled three ways you can add subscribers to your campaigns:
- Use sign-up forms that stand out. Make sure that your form is not just a little box hiding on your site. Use a pop-over or light box sign-up form that appears over the page. This will ensure your website visitors know that you have a newsletter or regularly scheduled email and they won't have to hunt to find that sign-up box.
Test out different incentives, like a 10% off coupon just for signing up. You can then use a welcome message to send the offer. Make sure you include a call to action to encourage subscriptions. Do not be boring and use "Sign up for our newsletter." Add some action words and you will see more success, like "Sign up now for exclusive savings" or "Sign up for our newsletter and be the first to know about sale items." You want to make sure that when visitors to your site see the form, they want to sign up and will not be frightened away!
- Ask for subscribers. If you have a physical location, use paper-based sign-up forms at your cash register or near your door, have staff members ask for email addresses, or use a QR code that links directly to your sign-up form. You can also use a computer or tablet to obtain email addresses.Make sure to set expectations and explain what they are signing up for. And remember from the tip above, use action words, like "save" and "exclusive." Clearly state that they can opt out at any time, and if you are collecting emails at a brick-and-mortar location, you can offer an immediate discount upon checkout rather than an offer to email a coupon for later use. Columbia Sportswear does a good job with this.
If you do not have a physical location, don't worry – we have a trick for you as well. If you have an ecommerce business, make sure to ask for the subscription during checkout, in the order confirmation, and at time of account creation. There may be times when visitors may not see your sign-up form, so make sure that you ask them to sign up during the purchase and account registration process.
- Run a contest to obtain subscribers. Offer a free product or a giveaway in return for a sign-up. Whitepapers or reports work well, and people don't mind giving away something if they are getting something. It's easy to do a giveaway on Facebook using a contest app, and during the registration process, ask for an email address. Many retailers succeed when they have contests for items like trips, gift cards, or electronic items. Make sure to inform subscribers that you will be signing them up for your newsletter and that they will be receiving ongoing emails from you in return for a sign-up.
These three methods should help you replace the subscribers you lose through attrition, and you'll be on your way to growing your email marketing subscriber list.
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The way we were
Countries that don't plan for the future tend not to do well there. When you watch the reckless behavior of the Tea Party-driven Republicans in Congress today, you can't help but fear that we'll be one of those. What makes it all the more frustrating is that in so many ways we have the wind at our back, if only we'd pull together to take advantage of it.
In a world that rewards imagination, we have an incredible melting pot of immigrants that constantly blends together new ideas from technology to commerce to the arts. In a world where secure, clean energy is a huge asset, our investments in efficiency and discoveries of natural gas, if properly exploited, have the potential to pull manufacturing back to America from all corners of the globe. In a world where the big divide is no longer between developed and developing countries but rather between high-imagination-enabling countries and low-imagination-enabling countries, we remain the highest-imagination-enabling country in the world — and we have the innovative companies, startups and venture capitalists to prove it. In a world where so many countries are struggling with diversity, we do so as well, but at least we've reached a point where we could twice elect a black man for president, whose middle name is Hussein, who defeated a woman in his own party and then four years later a Mormon from the other. No one else does that.
A country with this many natural assets should be celebrating, and instead we're inflicting wounds on ourselves. The gerrymandered hyperpartisanship that has infected both parties since the end of the Cold War is debilitating enough, but the latest iteration is a new low. The Republican Party is being taken over by a Tea Party faction that is not interested in governing on any of the big issues — immigration, gun control, health care, debt and taxes — where, with just minimal compromises between the two parties, we'd amplify our strengths so much that we'd separate ourselves from the rest of the world. Instead, this group is threatening to shut down the government and undermine America's vital credit rating if it doesn't get its way.
This kind of madness helped to produce the idiotic sequester — the $1.2 trillion in automatic, arbitrary and across-the-board budget cuts from 2013 to 2021 — that is already undermining one of our strongest assets.
Ask Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, the crown jewel of American biotech innovation. In fiscal 2013, the sequester required the NIH to cut $1.55 billion across the board: 5 percent at each of its 27 institutes and centers, irrespective of whether one was on the cusp of a medical breakthrough and another was not. "There was still an ability within each institute to make adjustments, but, as NIH director, I could not decide to emphasize cancer research and down-modulate something else," Collins explained.
Because of the sequester and the fact that the NIH budget has been losing ground to inflation for 10 years, "we will not be able to fund 640 research grants that were scored in the top 17 percent of the proposals we received," said Collins. "They would have been funded without the sequester, but now they won't. They include new ideas on cancer, diabetes, autism and heart disease — all the things that we as a country say are a high priority. I can't say which of those grants would have led to the next breakthrough, or which investigator would be a Nobel Prize winner 20 years from now."
Of those 640 top research proposals, 150 were from scientists financed in a previous budget cycle who had returned to the NIH to secure another three to five years of funding — because they thought they were really onto something and a peer review board agreed. "Now we are cutting them off," said Collins, "so you damage the previous investment as well as the future one."
In 2014, the NIH was planning to offer new money to stimulate research proposals in a dozen areas, including how to speed up the use of stem cells to cure Parkinson's and other diseases, how to better manage pain in sickle-cell disease and how to improve early diagnosis of autism. All were shelved because of the sequester, said Collins: "Why ask people to submit applications we would just have to turn down?"
In addition, in 2013, the NIH had to turn away from its research hospital 750 patients who wanted to be part of clinical trials for disorders for which medicine currently has no answers. America's biomedical ecosystem depends heavily on the NIH doing basic research the private sector won't do. So we're cutting the medical research that has the potential to prevent and cure the very diseases that are driving health care costs upward.
In short, we're cutting without a plan — the worst thing a country or company can do — and we're doing it because one of our two parties has been taken over by angry radicals and barking fools and the old leadership is running scared.
I have plenty of issues with Democrats. They are not blameless for our paralysis. But when the Republican Party goes this far off the rails, it isn't even remotely challenging President Obama to challenge his base on taxes and entitlements.
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Double Check Detector Assembly
The Double Check Detector Assembly (DCDA) is an outgrowth of the double check valve and is primarily utilized in fire line installations.
Its purpose is to protect the potable water supply line from possible contamination or pollution from the fire system, backpressure from fire line booster pumps, stagnant "black water" that sits in fire lines over extended periods of time, the addition of non-potable water through outside fire district connections (FDCs), and the detection of any water use in the fire line due to fire line leakage or deliberate water theft. It consists of two spring loaded check valves, a by-pass assembly with water meter and double check valve, and two tightly closing OS & Y gate valves.
Diagram of an double check detector assembly:
Link to Standardized Information for Double Check Detector Assemblies
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Fast Volumetric Imaging Using a Matrix Transesophageal Echocardiography Probe with Partitioned Transmit–Receive ArrayBera, D. (author), Van Den Adel, Franc (author), Radeljic-Jakic, Nikola (author), Lippe, Boris (author), Soozande, M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author), Kruizinga, P. (author), Daeichin, V. (author), Vos, H.J. (author), van der Steen, A.F.W. (author), Bosch, Johan G. (author), de Jong, N. (author)We describe a 3-D multiline parallel beamforming scheme for real-time volumetric ultrasound imaging using a prototype matrix transesophageal echocardiography probe with diagonally diced elements and separated transmit and receive arrays. The elements in the smaller rectangular transmit array are directly wired to the ultrasound system. The...journal article 2018


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Videos | May 24, 2012
Curiosity Rover Scoop Test
Curiosity will be a rolling geology lab on Mars. See how engineers take a soil sample using her stunt double.
Transcript:Hi, I'm Chris White, systems engineer leading the integrated chain test program and I'm here with your Curiosity Update. Today I'm standing in the MSL vehicle system test bed with a test model of Curiosity rover and we're about to do a scooping and drop off test.
So in today's test we'll bring the scoop on the end of the arm down into this tray of specially prepared sample.
We'll be taking images and identifying the target where we want to actually scoop.
Then we'll move the arm over, open up the scoop.
We'll scoop a sample of material. We'll close the scoop. We'll bring the arm back up to the front of the rover and we'll drop a very small portion onto the observation tray.
Then we'll spin the turret around and take additional images of the portion on the sample tray.
Once we've acquired those images, we'll bring the turret around again and drop off a portion into the inlet covers on the top of the rover.
The sample we need is not very big al all. In fact, it's about the size of this aspirin I'm holding.
Once that portion is dropped in, it will go into the science instruments SAN.
And when we're done with that, we'll bring the arm back out, then we'll clean everything out.
We have automatic cleaning functions that we do to clean everything out, ready for the next sample.
I'm Chris White and this has been your Curiosity Update.


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Can't it just be on me to not make such stuipid errors in the first case?
if (pin >= NATIVE_PINS) { SYS_ERROR (ERR_INV_PIN); return ERROR; }
uint32 stringLoadFromArray(string * s, char * c) { VERIFY_OBJECT(s, OBJID_STRING) // OK, the struct is good we can use it with a reasonable amount of confidence
uint32 serialSetUartPins(serialConnection * s, uint32 location) { uint8 txPin; uint8 rxPin; VERIFY_OBJECT (s, ERR_BAD_OBJECT); ASSERT_RETERR (location > 3, ERR_SERIAL_BAD_PORT); location <<= 1; rxPin = __uart_logical_pins[s->port][location]; txPin = __uart_logical_pins[s->port][location+1]; ASSERT_RETERR ((rxPin == ERROR) || (txPin == ERROR), ERR_SERIAL_BAD_LOCATION); TRY pinFunc (rxPin, (s->port == 0) ? FUNC_RXD0 : FUNC_RXD1); pinFunc (txPin, (s->port == 0) ? FUNC_TXD0 : FUNC_TXD1); CATCH_RETERR s->txPin = txPin; s->rxPin = rxPin; return NOERROR;}
Turning off dynamic semantic checks once you've finished debugging your program is like taking off your seat belt once you've left the driveway.
This is good enough because Bohrbugs are showstoppers for users: every time the user does the same thing, he or she will encounter the same bug. With Heisenbugs, on the other hand, the bugs often go away when you run the program again. This is a perfect match for the way users already behave on the Web. If they go to a Web page and it fails to respond, they just click "refresh" and that usually solves the problem.
Jim Gray drew a distinction between two kinds of bugs. The first kind are bugs that behave predictably and repeatedly--that is, they occur every time the program encounters the same inputs and goes through the same sequence of steps. These are Bohrbugs, named for the Bohr atom, by analogy with the classical atomic model where electrons circle around the nucleus in planetary-like orbits. Bohrbugs are great when debugging a program, since they are easier to reproduce and find their root causes.The second kind of bug is the Heisenbug, named for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and meant to connote the inherit uncertainty in quantum mechanics, which are unpredictable and cannot be reliably reproduced. The most common Heisenbugs these days are concurrency errors (a.k.a. race conditions), which depend on the order and timing of scheduling events to appear. Heisenbugs are also often sensitive to the observer effect; attempts to find the bug by inserting debugging code or running in a debugger often disrupt the sequence of events that led to the bug, making it go away.
If you hangout here long enough, you will become one of us and reliably won't matter.
I speak from experience, my standards are slipping.
Availability is doing the right thing within the specified response time. Reliability is not doing the wrong thing.
Make each module fail-fast -- either it does the right thing or stops.
Processes are made fail-fast by defensive programming. They check all their inputs, intermediate results, outputs and data structures as a matter of course. If any error is detected, they signal a failure and stop. In the terminology of [Cristian], fail-fast software has small fault detection latency.
The framework I'm writing (examples above are from it) attempts to address these sorts of issues but it's as much an academic project as anything as to be honest nobody seems to care about such things.
if (pin >= NATIVE_PINS) { SYS_ERROR (ERR_INV_PIN); return ERROR;
So you do that in digitalRead, digitalWrite, analogWrite,
digitalPinToTimer, digitalPinToBitMask, digitalPinToPort, and some equivalent in portOutputRegister, portModeRegister, portInputRegister,
figure out what SYS_ERROR is supposed to do on a deeply embedded system
Architecture Does not Just HappenArchitecture is About PeopleDivide and ConquerFormalize the InterfacesIdentify and Eliminate RiskEliminate DependenciesEnsure Full Testability


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What You Need to Know About Home Warranties
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PARK CITY, Utah - Canadian halfpipe skier Simon d'Artois is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a concussion and blacking out for about 10 seconds Saturday when he smacked his head during a fall at the U.S. Grand Prix.
Kelley Korbin, manager of media relations for the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association, said a CAT scan was normal but d'Artois continues to experience concussion symptoms. The Whistler, B.C., skier will remain in the hospital, likely overnight, until he feels better. D'Artois' father is with him at the hospital.
D'Artois fell near the top of the 22-foot superpipe and slid to the bottom unconscious.
Ski patrol immediately was on the scene and attended to him for about 20 minutes before taking him off in a sled. He was wearing a neck brace but flashed a "rock on" sign with his right hand as he left the venue.
Five of the 12 men in the finals fell Saturday. France's Benoit Valentin appeared to injure his left knee.
American David Wise won the event.
Canadian freestyle pioneer Sarah Burke crashed on the same halfpipe last year while training and died a week later from the injuries.
The dangers of winter action sports came into focus again this week when freestyle snowmobile rider Caleb Moore died after a crash at the Winter X Games.
Korbin said Burke's death likely was a big reason for the extra precaution.
"I'm sure that played a factor in taking it very seriously," Korbin said. "It wasn't overreaction but heroic measures. That's appreciated."
She said the team also had no problem with the Park City halfpipe.
"I heard the pipe was in fantastic condition today," Korbin said. "It wasn't anything to do with that. We have absolutely no concerns about the condition of the pipe or manner in which Park City treated his injury. It was commendable."
The skiers competing also had no complaints about the halfpipe, though they acknowledged the walls are more vertical than others.
"It's just the way it was cut," said American Torin Yater-Wallace, who finished second Saturday in the men's event behind teammate Wise. "They gave it a lot of vert, almost a little more than 90-degrees, so you've got to absorb when you go over the lip so you don't land too far in the flat."
He said he changed his second run after seeing the crash, downgrading to a double.
"Personally, I don't like to watch everybody's run, it kind of scares me," said Wallace. "Obviously, when you see something like that, when somebody hits their head pretty hard, it's pretty, like, mind-boggling, and makes you think. But then you have to go do your run and get into competitive mode."


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Dr. Kondis's main interest includes better recognition and response to child physical abuse, especially abusive head trauma. Her previous research project looked at health care providers and the incidence of missed fractures in the emergency department. Dr. Kondis is also interested in the epidemiology of abusive head trauma. Her current projects is examining whether or not the weather conditions are a risk factor for abusive head trauma and examines several other potential risk factors as well, but is examining 10 years of data form abusive head trauma patients.


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An international collaboration reported first indications of the production of electron neutrinos from muon neutrinos, raising the prospect that it may be possible for future experiments to test for violation of the symmetry between matter and antimatter.
Where did all the matter in the universe come from? This is one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics, and exciting results released from the international T2K neutrino experiment in Japan could be an important step toward resolving this puzzle.
The intriguing results indicate a new property of the enigmatic particles known as neutrinos.
There are three types of neutrinos (called flavors): one paired by particle interactions with the familiar electron (called the electron neutrino); and two more paired with the electron's heavier cousins, the mu and tau leptons. Previous experiments around the world have shown that these different flavors of neutrinos can spontaneously change into each other, a phenomenon called "neutrino oscillation."
Researchers have already observed two types of oscillations, but in its first full period of operation the T2K experiment has already seen evidence for a new type of oscillation (the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam). This means that researchers have now observed that neutrinos can oscillate in every way possible.
This level of complexity opens the possibility that the oscillations of neutrinos and their antiparticles (called antineutrinos) could be different. And if the oscillations of neutrinos and antineutrinos are different, it would be an example of what physicists call CP violation. This could be the key to explaining why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe (an excess which could not happen within the known laws of physics).
The experiment ran from January 2010 until March 11 this year, when it was dramatically interrupted by the Japanese earthquake. Fortunately, the multinational T2K team were unharmed, and their highly sensitive detectors were largely undamaged. Six clean electron neutrino events are observed in the data from before the earthquake, while in the absence of oscillations there should only have been 1.5. Even though such an excess could only happen by chance about one time in a hundred, that is not good enough to confirm a new physics discovery, so this is called an "indication."
Professor Dave Wark of the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the United Kingdom and Imperial College London, who served for 4 years as the iInternational co-spokesperson of the experiment and is head of the UK group, explained, "People sometimes think that scientific discoveries are like light switches that click from 'off' to 'on', but in reality it goes from 'maybe' to 'probably' to 'almost certainly' as you get more data. Right now, we are somewhere between 'probably' and 'almost certainly'."
Professor Christos Touramanis from Liverpool University is the project manager for the UK contributions to T2K: "We have examined the near detectors and turned some of them back on, and everything that we have tried works pretty well. So far it looks like our earthquake engineering was good enough, but we never wanted to see it tested so thoroughly."
Professor Takashi Kobayashi of the KEK Laboratory in Japan and spokesperson for the T2K experiment said, "It shows the power of our experimental design that with only 2 percent of our design data we are already the most sensitive experiment in the world for looking for this new type of oscillation."
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VIDEO: Samsung Galaxy Camera Review – A Hybrid that Takes the Higher Road
One of the leading trends in digital camera technology this year is the convergence of tablet and photo technology. Basically this means the next wave of digital cameras will offer a lot of the touch and swipe technology common to tablets, along with the connectivity and Web browsing capabilities that create a window to the Internet. Samsung's Galaxy Camera is a great example of this innovative hybrid design. It supplements its point & shoot prowess with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating environment, and 3G wireless connectivity.
DigitalCameraReview editor Laura Hicks spent some time with this innovative "camlet" (camera/tablet) and filed the following video report on its functions and capabilities.
Hello. Laura Hicks here, from DigitalCameraReview.com. I want to tell you a little bit about the Samsung Galaxy camera that we just got in the other day. I want you to have a hands-on look at it, just like I got to. What I am going to do is just show you a little bit about the details of this camera.
The first thing that we do – I already turned it on. I am going to show you, it is just as easy as hitting a button at the top and you will see the lens comes out. You are able to see that immediately on the front screen I have just a picture that I have already taken, but it will immediately show up on the camera screen. We have a camera screen and we also have the home screen. I am going to go ahead and show you some of the functionality of the home screen first. The home screen will pop up with the time and date; you can add different elements to this, to make it more personal for you.
My review unit has 4G access. I have a SIM card that is in here, I will show you where that is. Down here we have the battery and the SIM card. We also have the ability to have a micro SD card that goes in that spot, if you guys can see that. The battery pops out. It is a pretty sizable battery and locks in place. You can also see we have the ability to put it on a tripod if we want. On the side is where we are charging up our battery; it just pops open. This is just a little plastic piece, so it makes me a little nervous because it looks like it could be weak and easily fall off. It has a nice, soft, rubbery feel to it.
On the top, these are really our only physical buttons is the on/off switch. Hold it for a second and it will come back on. While it is getting ready to come up, we also have a flash button, it pops right open, very easy. You can easily push it down, pop it right back up, back and forth.
This is our shutter button and our zoom. I will show you, we can zoom it in. It goes all the way to a 21 X zoom. We have different modes on the camera; we have our auto mode, which is just our basic mode for any point-and-shoot-type of a camera. We also have the smart modes. We have anywhere from continuous shot, silhouette, sunset, night, fireworks, light trace, beauty face, and best photo, which you will select the best out of a couple of different pictures, you get to choose that. It is more of a continuous burst-type of mode, and then you pick the best from there. Continuous shot, best face is the same thing; you get to select from multiple pictures, the best face of the person. You can tell it is very easy to scroll through these options and pick the one you want.
It has a very easy user interface. The other mode that we have, that I really like, because I am a DSL shooter, is the expert mode. I am really a big fan of this user interface, because what we have is the ability to switch from program to aperture priority, shutter priority, and fully manual priority. We also have the ability, like I just hit, with the ability to shoot video. I want to pick shutter, it will go ahead and allow me to scroll through. I can just easily scroll through the different shutter settings. As you can tell, my white backdrop is getting very white down to a very dark white. We can scroll through that. If we set it on fully manual mode, it will allow me also to adjust the aperture. I can adjust that up or down, the same scrolling motion like I did before. I am able to adjust the exposure compensation and also the ISO. It will allow me to scroll through and go all the way up to 3200.
If I have it set on manual mode it will then read me all of my information and it will tell me what my exposure compensation is. I am just a little too hot right now, so that will tell me all that information, just like you would with a DSLR camera, which is what I really like about it. I am going to set that back on the auto mode. Also, if you hit these buttons, this one is just a shutter button; you can hit the shutter that way or the shutter from here. You can hear it; it was able to take a picture both ways. Here is the video capability, and it will allow me to just record that way. Push pause, I can stop it.
I am going to show you how to access the gallery. Down here, it will show me the last image that I took, which is a video. I can scroll through this way and show you some pictures that I have recently taken, or I can also hit the button here and I can see a bunch of different pictures that I have taken over the last few days. It will show you the squirrel I took pictures of, birds, that kind of thing. The gallery, we can go back to that. It has several different ways that you can view the images. It has a circular scrolling option. It has it where you can just choose from whether it is the camera profile photos, videos, or you can go back to the screen and it will allow you to scroll through it that way.
We can connect to the Internet. We can go through and go to an app store; they call it the Play Store. It is just an app store, just like you have on any other Smartphone. Different categories, very user-friendly interface. You can choose the apps by just a slide of the finger. I went ahead and updated some apps. I put Pinterest on here, just to see how quickly it was able to upload. It comes up very quickly, you can tell. Facebook, we are able to access that. Google, lots of different options, YouTube.
I just wanted to show you a little bit about the phone. It has all those same settings that you have on any Smartphone or tablet device. You have the ability to update this as you wish and change your widgets.
I am coining this little camera a camlet, because I feel like it is a really great mix of a camera and a tablet device. It has a lot of functionality and it has a great user interface that I am really happy with. The images on this device are pretty good. It would be what you would expect out of a point-and-shoot camera. I was able to get some images in lower light situations that were pretty good. I did get some movement on them. Again, it is what you would expect out of a point-and-shoot, but I am pretty happy with this camera. I feel like it has a lot of fun options on it and definitely something that a lot of different age groups will enjoy. I had the ability to have several different age groups hold onto it, play with it, and see what they thought, and everybody was a big fan of it.
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Lunchworkshop im TZDO: "Einsatz von externen Softwareentwicklern zum Mehrwert des Unternehmens"
Today Germany is a land of invention and innovation. To stay competitive German companies invest more than ever in intelligent technologies and innovative digital applications. But statistics show their inability to recruit anything like the number IT experts needed to fill vacant positions. If you are curious, take a look at BITKOM survey "IT Mittelstand in Deutschland" - there are 13 000 open IT positions in Germany now in small- and middle sized enterprises, what means companies cannot grow fast enough to reach their goals. What do you do if you are losing business due to lack of IT talent?
In the TZDO Lunchworkshop on Wednesday, 25th of March 2015 from 11 - 14h, Vince Pearson and Jasper Lindholt of LIVATEC will show a live presentation with following discussion on the different ways of using remote resources — from freelancers in Dresden to outsourcing in Nepal. They will share the pitfalls and give an insider's view to picking the right engagement model for your situation and goals.
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Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has commenced the supply of environment-friendly piped natural gas (PNG) to 255 houses in Bhubaneswar. Minister for petroleum and natural gas and skill development and entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan unveiled the facility.
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UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Department of Philosophy offer a joint J.D./Ph.D. program for exceptionally talented and especially committed students who hope to dedicate their careers to research and teaching in law and philosophy.
Admission is extremely competitive, and very few students are admitted. It would be highly unusual for more than one candidate to be admitted in a year, and it is possible for no candidates to be admitted in an admission cycle.
Before being considered for the J.D./Ph.D. program, applicants must first be admitted independently to the Law School and the Philosophy Department. Each year, the Philosophy Ph.D. program receives approximately 300 applications, and in recent years the starting class has usually numbered between five and seven students.
A good candidate for the J.D./Ph.D. program would normally have a strong undergraduate philosophy background, with demonstrated ability to produce high-quality philosophical writing. One of the most important aspects of an application is a writing sample that displays exceptional aptitude for philosophical analysis. Most applicants have had substantial training in philosophy, or related subjects such as mathematics and logic, as undergraduates. (Without such training, it is possible for an extraordinary candidate to be successful, but high-quality written work in philosophy is essential.) A good candidate will also have a demonstrated interest in the intersection between law and philosophy.
Interested students without much background in philosophy might want to consider the specialization in law & philosophy rather than the joint degree program.
Candidates for the joint degree program must:
(If a student who has been admitted to the J.D. and Ph.D. programs is not admitted to the joint degree program, the student's admissions to the J.D. and Ph.D. programs will not be affected.)
Students already admitted into either the J.D. program or the Ph.D. program who wish to pursue the joint degree may apply to do so by completing the application steps listed above.
Candidates for the joint degree program must complete all requirements for both degrees as described below; however, a limited number of Philosophy courses will be counted toward the J.D. requirements, and a limited number of Law School courses will be counted toward the Ph.D. requirements.
The J.D. normally takes three years. The Ph.D. normally takes six to seven years. Depending on their individual circumstances, some students may be able to save time on the coursework component of the program and thereby complete the joint degree program in less time than would be required to complete both degrees separately.
The program could follow one of many paths. In the typical case, the student would be expected to focus solely on philosophy for the first year of the Philosophy graduate program and solely on law for the first year of the Law School program. Thereafter, the student could take courses in both schools during the same academic year. There are various ways in which the program could be structured, depending on the student's interests and needs.
Students in the joint degree program will write a dissertation on a suitable topic related to law and philosophy.
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Music & Copyright: ASCAP vs. The World; The World vs. ASCAP?
How would you react if you were a musician and the society of authors and publishers that represents you writes you officially to discourage supporting entities like Creative Commons, Public Knowledge or the Electronic Frontier Foundation, putting them on the same level as copyright thieves? Or ever to donate funds to "fight" these supposed "thieves"?
Certainly – in a historical moment in which you probably are enjoying sites and services such as Internet Archive and you have made your own use of a CC license at least once, maybe in places such as Wikipedia or Flickr – you would feel at least a bit perplexed.
But this is what happened to some members of (once?) respectable US society ASCAP, as reported by sites and blogs over the last couple days, starting with BoingBoing.
ASCAP is one of the three "sisters" (the other two being BMI and SESAC) dealing in music performance rights in the USA. It is one of the most important royalty collection agencies worldwide, for the music industry.
And for years has been embracing technology in a positive way; for example allowing public access to the ACE database: a searchable archive of millions of records which is an indispensable tool for some music professionals seeking for permissions, sample clearances, or simply checking credits when reprinting a certain song on cd or as mp3.
ASCAP – unlike other societies like Italy's SIAE – is not difficult or expensive to join to. It just costed $10 to join in days when SIAE not only asked you much more than that but also required to complete one or two exams to prove you were able to write/read music and to compose lyrics. It costs a one-time $35 fee now with no annual dues (our lovely SIAE here has annual dues that are about three times ASCAP's one-time fee).
But over the last couple of decades, ASCAP in various moments has self-exposed, causing a level of controversy.
Sometimes it was for a good reason: ASCAP seeked eventual performance royalties from download services; but honestly, the law never clearly explained what a downloaded mp3 is. Does it involve mechanical (reproduction) rights or performance rights? After all, a file transmitted over the internet is neither a printed record nor a song played in a club or on the radio. ASCAP lost, this time. But it was for a good cause, we could say.
Some other moves sound dumber, though.
Recently, ASCAP has attacked AT&T over ringtones (should people pay ASCAP when the phone rings and a fragment of song is "publicly" heard?); asked for double royalty payments on YouTube videos (i.e. payments from those who embed videos too, even if actually YouTube already pays for videos embedded elsewhere… since it is hosting that content!); asked sites like Amazon and Apple iTunes to pay for 30 second streaming clips (traditionally, in the US, those never required any payment since they are considered promotional excerpts, that help preview and sell tracks).
Finally sued a Manhattan pub over unpaid licensing fees, putting Bruce Springsteen's name in the lawsuit (without Springsteen knowing or wanting to be involved); and the memory of a 1996 public relations disaster is still indelible: that was the time when ASCAP attacked girl scouts singing around campfires.
ASCAP lost the 2009 ringtone case in a District Court: public ringing is not a commercial public performance; phone companies and users don't have to pay a royalty every time the phone rings.
It seemed they were really scraping the barrel between last year and the first months of 2010. Instead, a new level was reached when ASCAP urged some members – in writing – to finance fighting entities such as EFF, Creative Commons and Public Knowledge.
The timing for ASCAP's move is suspicious. Does it have anything to do with CC's "Catalyst Grants" initiative, collecting funds to "empower individuals and organizations everywhere that are working to make knowledge easily, freely, and legally available to everyone"? For the record, as I write, the initiative has collected over 27,000 of the proposed $100,000 to be distributed to creators. The Milan Chamber of Commerce – which certainly will not be happy in being labeled as a supporter of presumed "copyright thieves" – happily donated 10,000 Euros (over $10,000) to support innovation.
I tried to reach some of the parties involved and the reactions are mostly as expected, apart for the fact that Lawrence Lessig chose the wrong moment to pack for holidays, apparently (he was busy "trying to pull the world together", in his words, before taking a break with the family).
Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge sent a quick message (through his Blackberry) that defines very well his astonishment and perplexity on ASCAP's actions: "We are puzzled by their attention to us. We are in favor of a balanced copyright policy, not in favor of theft".
Eric Steuer, Creative Commons' Creative Director told me:
It's very sad that ASCAP is falsely claiming that Creative Commons works to undermine copyright. Creative Commons licenses are copyright licenses – plain and simple, without copyright, these tools don't even work. CC licenses are legal tools that creators can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights. Artists and record labels that want to make their music available to the public for certain uses, like noncommercial sharing or remixing, should consider using CC licenses. Artists and labels that want to reserve all of their copyright rights should absolutely not use CC licenses.
Many tens of thousands of musicians, including acts like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Radiohead, and Snoop Dogg, have used Creative Commons licenses to share with the public. These musicians aren't looking to stop making money from their music. In fact, many of the artists who use CC licenses are also members of collecting societies, including ASCAP. Incidentally, that's how we first heard about this email campaign – many musicians that support Creative Commons received the email and forwarded it to us. Some of them even included a donation to Creative Commons.
Another reply to ASCAP came to us from Rebecca Jeschke, Media Relations Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
We don't really have much to say about this. Certainly, we are not "mobilizing to undermine ASCAP members' copyrights" nor do we "want all music to be free." We simply want to preserve balance and ensure that the Internet and digital technologies continue to empower people as consumers and creators. We believe that artists should be compensated for their work, and one proposal we have is Voluntary Collective Licensing: http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective-licensing-music-file-sharing.
The proposal mentioned by Jeschke is nothing new. The EFF document is dated 2008.
And if you wanna laugh, it was 2001 when I myself suggested (sorry, original article written for Interlex is in Italian…) that after all the original Napster was like other "private copy" systems, only without physical media (cd or cassette) involved. Of course there was no compensation form for copyright owners, unlike other media, and that was the big problem.
But this means a similar model could have been used, if the relevant parties had agreed on it.
ASCAP and other similar entities had more than a decade to express their view on that point, but apparently they never stopped for a moment to think. Lawsuits money could have been saved, consumers might have been given access to music and more rights; authors would have been compensated.
ASCAP could take a chance to examine EFF's old proposal, propose suggestions to it, or – if any – alternative solutions to the old filesharing compensation problem; instead of scaring author members about nonexisting "threats" by entities such as CC, EFF and PK, that have only helped authors – and consumers – so far.
Special thanks to: Nicola D'Agostino, Rebecca Jeschke (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Art Brodsky (Public Knowledge), Joichi Ito, Eric Steuer (Creative Commons).


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I think the last time he was out for a significant amount of time was when Peyton had surgery in 2008, and the O looked pretty bad for awhile. Hard to say then if it was Manning coming back from injury or the absence of Jeff that hurt them more. Saturday has a lot of responsibility w/ blocking assignments and may be in contention for the Hall some day. Important to note this info comes from the owner, not the coach or staff. The Colts like to play with injury reports, and they haven't even released which leg the surgery was on.
I think the quote from Clark in the attached ESPN article sums it up pretty well:
"It's tough, [Saturday] is the foundation of our offensive line," Pro Bowl tight end Dallas Clark said. "What he brings is consistency, his level of play, all those intangibles are just invaluable. It's definitely the next-guy-up theory, but it's going to be tough without him."
Considering the amount of injuries on the OL and run blocking problems the Colts already had: big deal or not? Is there any other team in which the loss of their Center impacts them more?


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ARTICLE:Los Feliz Ledger – by Norma Zager
A Beehive In Every Back Yard? GGPNC Votes to Support Urban Beekeeping
LOS FELIZ—The Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council (GGPNC) have voted to support efforts to legalize urban beekeeping in Los Angeles and encourage the City Planning Department to initiate an ordinance that would allow residents to raise their own honeybees.
A vote was taken at the GGPNC's Jan. 17th board member after hearing from the community about the value of practice of beekeeping.
Chelsea McFarland of HoneyLove, spoke about the benefits of raising bees and said their future lies with individual beekeepers.
"According to Simon Buxton as quoted in the new documentary, The Vanishing of the Bees, the future of beekeeping is not in one beekeeper with 60,000 hives, but rather 60,000 people with one hive," McFarland said.
McFarland and husband Rob founded HoneyLove as a nonprofit conservation organization to protect the honeybees and inspire and educate new urban beekeepers. She informed the board that bees pollinate 80% of the world's plants and one out of every three or four bites of food eaten is thanks to bees.
"The best science tells us that the future of the honeybee lie within the urban environment. Despite the irony, cities actually provide safer habitat than the farms and rural areas traditionally associated with beekeeping. Our home gardens are free of pesticides, and in cities like Los Angeles, there is year-round availability of pollen and nectar," she said.
Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Spokane, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and most recently Santa Monica have all taken decisive action and legalized beekeeping.
GGPNC board member Barbara Ferris, who supported the measure said, "The backyard beekeepers initiative is the most delightful issue I've ever heard presented to the GGPNC board."
Franklin Hills resident Joe Andrews, who attended the meeting to show his support, has been raising bees for more than 20 years. "I like watching them and they are calming to me for some reason. It is also a quality of life issue," he said.


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At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.
Zep Solar is looking for a lead Rails developer to join their team in San Rafael, CA.
Are you passionate about solar energy and interested in making a difference in the world? Can you see yourself leading the development of the most innovative solar design tool on the market? If you answered yes to both questions, keep reading…
Zep Solar Inc. is one of the fastest growing solar manufacturers in the world and has developed an award-winning, patented photovoltaic (PV) mounting system that is revolutionizing the solar industry and helping to make solar energy safer and more affordable for the masses. Our technology enables solar installations up to 5X faster than standard mounting systems while reducing raw materials up to 90%. As part of the new platform, we have developed a design tool that enables a user to calculate complex structural loads and automatically configure an optimal system layout while determining a bill of materials with the click of a few buttons.
Now we're ready to add new features, products and internationalize the design tool and are therefore seeking a brilliant lead developer to manage the project and take responsibility for the whole technical stack (front-end and back-end) while weighing priorities and costs of development. The successful candidate will begin by working in a pair environment with a top development team at Pivotal Labs while learning the design tool's system architecture inside and out before taking control over the project.
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Videos | July 20, 2007
Opportunity - Waiting for the Dust to Settle
Can NASA's Opportunity rover weather a gigantic dust storm on Mars?
Transcript:NARRATOR Can Opportunity weather a gigantic dust storm on Mars? Mega storms roar across the red planet every five to six years. Mariner 9 caught one in 1971, as did Viking five years later.
Richard Zurek, Mars Exploration Program Scientist Dust storms on Mars aren't the same as dust storms on Earth. If you're at the rover, for instance, sitting on the surface and you're looking up at the sky, you're not going to be able to see the sun's disk even during the day, because the cloud, the dust haze is thick enough that the sunlight has been either absorbed or scattered.
NARRATOR Opportunity snapped these pictures over several Martian days recently. Darkened skies indicate the amount of dust blocking the sun's energy. There is a possibility that if the haze continues to thicken and the solar power is reduced at the surface that we could lose the Opportunity rover.
There's a certain point where it doesn't have enough energy to maintain all of its systems, and once they shut down, we won't be able to revive them. We're not at that point yet, and we have some margin to that, but we're close enough that we're a little worried about it.
Speaker phone (Mars Mission Area) "If all goes well, the commands should be transmitted to the spacecraft during the 12:38 Odyssey pass."
NARRATOR The rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a command asking Opportunity to skip phoning home for a while to conserve energy.
Richard Zurek Opportunity is hunkered down, and so it's only doing the very essential things that are needed to keep the spacecraft alive.
NARRATOR Mars winds can giveth and taketh away. Mars dust devils gave the rovers new leases on life by blowing the dust off of their solar panels. This wind storm is a different story.
Richard Zurek Dust storms on Mars aren't local the way they are on Earth. These things can take over the whole planet. They can obscure, pole to pole, all the way wrapped around the planet. The Odyssey spacecraft can see both where the dust is in the atmosphere and it can also see the temperature effect. On the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, it gets an almost complete global view of the planet.
NARRATOR Scientists hope this Martian dust storm will hold valuable information. Opportunity's twin Spirit is on the other side of Mars where the dust storm is less severe. The team is still limiting its activity to conserve power. In the meantime, scientists and engineers hope the dust settles soon, before Opportunity's power runs out.
Richard Zurek If things don't get worse, we expect that we'll be in a situation of recovering and being able to go on. But even if we don't, okay, instead of 90 days, we've gotten over 1000 days operation on the surface. So, these things have been just, you know, hugely successful.


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For over 30 years, the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission (CVRM) has been providing services to the homeless and less fortunate in the region. The agency is a safe haven where daily spiritual and physical needs of the needy are met by the shelter's volunteers. The shelter is a nonprofit organization that relies on the generosity of others.
Taking this into consideration, The Coachella Valley chapter of Rollerz Only Car Club teamed up with the CVRM for their fifth annual toy drive. The toys collected would be distributed to the children of CVRM for the holidays.
The parking garage of the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California was selected as the location for the toy drive. Participants arrived from the Baja, California, Los Angeles, Imperial Valley and Arizona areas to support the CVRM and Rollerz Only. Good Times Car and Bike Club from Los Angeles and Arizona showed up with toys and some clean rides. Latino Classics, Oldies, Viejitos, Uniques, and Royal Fantasies also showed up in force to support the toy drive.
Entertainment for the day included the Cholo DJ, DJ Mike Lopez, and from the Imperial Valley, the group Viva Same Difference. Keep an eye and ear out for these young men; they have quite a future in the music business. Vendors like Switch Happy had items up for sale, while other vendors at the toy drive were selling music, art, and clothing. Rollerz Only even had jumpers for the kids.
As afternoon turned to evening, the toy drive ended with the trophy presentation. The fifth annual toy drive ended on a positive note; a lot of toys were collected for the needy. Rollerz Only once again proved that Lowriding is more than cars and car shows. Thanks to Orlando, Omar, and the rest of the club for their hospitality.


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Strips of non-crop, native vegetation are beckoning to farmers, and part of the lure involves removing acreage from production. This apparent contradiction, once an absurd notion, is rapidly growing in acceptance.
The many visitors attending the recent field day at the Duncan Williams Farm in Coahoma County, Miss., saw the success and potential of conservation buffer zones.
The field day presentation, led by Wes Burger, avian ecologist and wildlife and fisheries professor, Mississippi State University, and Ross Conover, Ph.D. candidate, Iowa State University, emphasized the benefits of buffer zones to both agriculture and ecology. Burger described buffer zones as "win-win propositions" for both farmers and conservationists.
Burger and Conover highlighted different types of buffers by taking attendees to several exemplary locations on the Williams Farm. These included riparian buffers, field strips, and field borders. Their presentation never strayed from it's theme — "Buffers: common sense conservation."
The message spoke loudest through its simplicity — buffers offer tangible results for both wildlife habitat and agriculture.
Concerning habitat, buffers can be a haven for an incredible array of flora and fauna. "Buffers provide different things for different species at different times," said Burger. A buffer's growth (over a 20-year period) might change from grass to shrubs to trees. Burger detailed how each timeframe could be laden with diverse and unique wildlife.
Without question, the creature best associated with buffer zones is the bobwhite quail. Bobwhite numbers are up, attributable to CP 33, Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds. A federal conservation measure passed in 2004, CP 33 has become the impetus for bobwhite restoration. Buffers have provided desperately needed sustenance and cover, vital to the bobwhite's survival.
However, buffers are favorable to a wide array of other animals. Proliferation of particular animal species depends on the landowner's intent when first establishing a buffer. A buffer's composition (vegetation, location and width) has a correlation with the type of fauna present. In addition to bobwhite quail — deer, rabbits, and a multitude of birds may seek protection, food, thermal cover, corridors, and nesting sites.
In regard to buffers and agriculture, cynics might frown and hurl charges of careless compassion and misbegotten altruism at the expense of yield and output. This is simply not the case.
Farm production demands bottom-line realism, and conservation buffer zones are designed to be congruent with that bottom line.
Again, CP 33 is a fine example. Landowners signing with the program are reimbursed for 90 percent of establishment costs. In addition, there is a yearly rental payment to counter lost production, and a $100 per acre signing incentive.
Buffers occupy the edge of crop fields — a location where farm production is already minimal. Therefore, an area with minimal production can be boosted by financial incentives that come with the implementation of conservation practices.
"Conservation buffers serve as an interface between row crops and the outside," Conover said. "They have minimal impact on row crop production."
Agricultural benefits go beyond percents and figures. Buffers can foster rich, beneficial predator insect populations. These predators will then assist in controlling the insect pest population. In addition, crop pollinators may reap buffer benefits, thriving due to new habitat.
Water and wind erosion can be substantially reduced by buffer introduction. Water quality can be improved as pollutants are trapped before runoff within buffer vegetation. If planted with deep-rooted, native grasses, drought-tolerant buffers will endure the most severe of water shortages.
Buffer zones will thrive if designed with foresight and purpose. When vegetation is matched with preferred varieties, desired wildlife, climate, and landscape — buffers flourish.
Whether "common sense conservation" gathers more steam remains to be seen, but the participants at the Williams Farm field day believe that buffer zones are viable and beneficial, representing a rare symmetry between agriculture and ecology.
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Trade with NY Rangers, 2011
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Prospect Talent Score
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Based on the 2004-05 season, Calgary Hitmen center Brodie Dupont might very well have been the most confusing prospect for the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. After a forgettable first half of the season, Dupont emerged as one of the most dangerous weapons on an explosive Hitmen offense. Scoring just eight points in 36 games, Dupont caught fire in second half, raising his totals on the season to 25 points in 70 games. After being drafted by the Rangers in the second round of the 2005 NHL Draft, Dupont more than doubled his production in the 2005-06 season. He then finished his junior career in 2006-07 as one of the major offensive contributors to the Calgary Hitmen's playoff run.
2007-08: Dupont's rookie professional season was in 2007-08, and there is no question that he had an up-and-down year. Dupont's best month was November, when he posted half of his 22 points for the year. He did often show his ability to fight, as well as toughness along the boards, which the Rangers are looking to develop.
2008-09: Dupont skated in 79 of 80 games for the Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL) and provided occasional offense and scrappy two-way play in his second pro season with the Rangers organization. He scored 18 goals with 24 assists and was +5 with 112 PMs. The Wolf Pack finished first in the Atlantic Division before falling to Worcester in a six-game, first-round playoff series. Dupont had 2 assists and was even with 15 PMs in the playoffs.
2009-10: Dupont returned to the center position he played in junior hockey after playing wing for the Wolf Pack in his first two AHL seasons and played in all 80 games for Hartford. Dupont was +4 and the fifth-leading scorer on a team that struggled to score – finishing with 17 goals and 22 assists. His 124 penalty minutes were the third most on the Wolf Pack.Dupont was re-signed by the Rangers to a one-year contract as a restricted free agent in July 2010.
2010-11: Dupont made his NHL debut – skating five-and-a-half minutes for the Rangers in a January game in Atlanta – and was the third-leading scorer for the Rangers' re-christened AHL franchise, the Connecticut Whale. He had no points or penalties in his brief appearance with New York. In 72 games for Connecticut he scored 14 goals with 31 assists and was -5 with 78 PMs. The Whale reached the playoffs after finishing third in the Atlantic Division. In the six-game first-round series with Portland, Dupont scored 1 goal with 2 assists and was +1 with 6 PMs. The Predators acquired Dupont from the Rangers in exchange for forward Andreas Thuresson in July 2011.
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Scout #1: He's very strong around the net, physically very strong, has great balance, not a really fast skater but powerful. He's not dynamic offensively but when he's in front of the net and he's in position with the puck he can put it in. When he checks, he's got so much power in his lower body that he goes right through you. I wouldn't argue with him being a second round pick.
Scout #2: Some nights he doesn't score that often but he still plays very well during the games. We really expected him to improve over the season and in a lot of ways he really did and I still think he can go a long ways yet. He's a big strong kid that plays with a lot of enthusiasm.


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This isn't as good as Prehistoricisms, but it's pretty damn good. Definitely top 10 this year. And I'm serious when I say see them live--Mastodon and Cynic are two of my favorite bands, but Intronaut was the highlight at both shows.
So is this another one track epic that spans a multitude of genres and emotions in a fourty minute grand finale?
Digging: Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Album Rating: 4.0No. I just keep referencing the opening track because it contains everything that makes this album different.
Nah. it's got 8 tracks
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Album Rating: 4.0Review makes it sound as if they pulled a Crack the Skye. Going to listen to the stream now.
Album Rating: 4.5in my top 5 so far
Excellent album. Period.
Album Rating: 5.0This album is fantastic!
Album Rating: 4.0Wikipedia says that Justin Chancellor is a guest on here somewhere. Also, this reminds me a lot of Baroness, except it's Intronaut.
Album Rating: 4.0Album is great!
Album Rating: 5.0Justin Chancellor plays on the title track, which is great.
Album Rating: 4.0"pulled a Crack the Skye"
pumped to receive this
Album Rating: 4.0I came in your mail once. You didn't seem too happy about it.
Album Rating: 5.0Lol win
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offthis album is mind-boggling ...
Album Rating: 4.0Intronaut slays everyone else in the recommended by reviewer section IMO
Album Rating: 3.5the intro to Core Relations
Digging: Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind
Album Rating: 4.0...Intronaut does NOT slay Neurosis.
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UPDATED: As far as I know everyone on Twitter can now download an archive of all their twitter activity, there are a few neat things you can do with the data once you've got it. For instance, you could upload it all to your website (or your Google Drive) make it public and searchable as I have done http://tweets.sciencebase.com
So, here's all my tweets dating back to when I first signed up in June 2007 and available for your delectation. A mere 32,000 tweets at the time of writing. By using using the unconverted root file "index.html" from your archive and the attendant CSS files etc you effectively get a browsable web site of your Twitter archive.
Currently, I am hosting my twitter archive on my website rather than Google Drive, I am sure there's a way to use the drive or perhaps DropBox to periodically download my archive and automatically sync the CSV file from it to my server, but for now I'll do that manually.